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Encyclopedia > College of Arts and Sciences

A liberal arts college is an institution of higher education found in the United States, offering programs in the liberal arts at the post-secondary level. They encourage — and often require — their students to take a substantial number of classes in topics which may not directly relate to their vocational goals, in an effort to provide a "well_rounded" education. They may be distinguished from colleges offering programs primarily in business, engineering and technology, the trades, the fine arts, theology, or other specialized subjects. Liberal arts colleges have sprung up outside the U.S. as well, such as in The Netherlands.


Liberal arts colleges usually focus on tertiary education leading to a bachelor's degree in a program designed to be completed in four years' worth of study, though some include post_graduate programs. They tend to be relatively small, private, and predominantly residential. As such, they may offer a more uniform student experience than at a larger university with more diffuse course offerings, as well as more selective—and more expensive, although although a number of state_supported institutions modeled on traditional liberal arts colleges have been created.


Some institutions referred to as "liberal arts colleges" are distinguished from universities not so much by a difference in kind, but a difference in size, taking the form of small universities, complete with subsidiary schools dedicated to a particular specialized course of study and offering a limited set of graduate degrees. In this sense, large liberal arts colleges and small private universities occupy similar niches.


Furthermore, university units whose faculty and curriculum encompass the traditional liberal arts and pure sciences are frequently labeled "liberal arts colleges." Indeed, some are explicitly named a "College of Liberal Arts," or a variant such as "College of Arts and Letters" or "College of Arts and Sciences" to distinguish them from units focused on the manual arts and applied sciences. Both colloquial and professional references to "liberal arts colleges" generally refer to standalone institutions, excluding such units.


List of liberal arts colleges

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College of Arts and Sciences - Loyola University New Orleans (402 words)
The College of Arts and Sciences serves as the anchor for all undergraduate study at Loyola.
The centerpiece of Loyola's liberal-arts education is the Common Curriculum, housed in the College of Arts and Sciences and required of all Loyola undergraduates regardless of the college in which they are enrolled.
College of Arts and Sciences students have the opportunity to study abroad in countries such as Belgium, England, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Mexico, and Spain; can perform internships in order to gain real-world working experience; and are able to perform undergraduate research both independently and with faculty in a variety of fields.
Lehigh University - College of Arts and Sciences (447 words)
The College of Arts and Sciences, with about 190 faculty, 1900 undergraduates, and 480 graduate students, is Lehigh's home for the liberal arts.
The College fosters intellectual excitement with flexible curricula that often cross the traditional disciplines and with personal attention to students at all levels.
College faculty work at the forefront of their disciplines and infuse their passion for scholarship and service into the College environment.
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